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[CITE: 47USC206]

 
          TITLE 47--TELEGRAPHS, TELEPHONES, AND RADIOTELEGRAPHS
 
                 CHAPTER 5--WIRE OR RADIO COMMUNICATION
 
                     SUBCHAPTER II--COMMON CARRIERS
 
                    Part I--Common Carrier Regulation
 
Sec. 206. Carriers' liability for damages

    In case any common carrier shall do, or cause or permit to be done, 
any act, matter, or thing in this chapter prohibited or declared to be 
unlawful, or shall omit to do any act, matter, or thing in this chapter 
required to be done, such common carrier shall be liable to the person 
or persons injured thereby for the full amount of damages sustained in 
consequence of any such violation of the provisions of this chapter, 
together with a reasonable counsel or attorney's fee, to be fixed by the 
court in every case of recovery, which attorney's fee shall be taxed and 
collected as part of the costs in the case.

(June 19, 1934, ch. 652, title II, Sec. 206, 48 Stat. 1072.)


                    Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

    Judgment and costs, see rule 54, Title 28, Appendix, Judiciary and 
Judicial Procedure.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 274 of this title.
